San Vito Coffee House is a live-music venue in Winnipeg, Manitoba. St. James coffeehouse with recurring Friday and Saturday live entertainment in an intimate cafe setting. Programming includes Acoustic, singer-songwriter, jazz, folk, coffeehouse. Age access is 21+. The venue is located at 2293 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB. For musicians evaluating a date, the established programming is the clearest guide to whether a set, instrumentation, and audience profile will fit the room. Artists can compare their sound and show scale with the venue’s existing live-music format before pursuing a date. Bands and solo performers can use the genre mix, audience setting, and performance style as practical signals when building a routing plan. For working musicians, that established performance pattern also provides useful context for deciding how much production, stage footprint, and preparation a show may require. The venue’s live-use pattern makes it a practical lead for suitable performers. The venue’s live-use pattern makes it a practical lead for performers whose sound and presentation align with the room.
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Ralph Connor House is a historic Winnipeg mansion converted into a rentable multi-room event venue with a lower-level theater and A/V capability. The scale stays intimate: about 100 standing, 65 seated or 60 in the theater. Singer-songwriter, folk, acoustic, classical and chamber performances suit the character of the house far better than oversized production. Musicians who benefit from an attentive audience and a distinctive setting can make this feel like a special-event concert rather than a generic room rental.
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- Capacity
- 100
- Age policy
- 21+
- Genres
- Acoustic, Chamber, Classical, Folk, Singer-Songwriter
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- 54 West Gate, Winnipeg, MB R3C 2E1, Canada
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- 204-954-7880
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